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Calgary, Alberta already has a track record for innovation, thanks to its commitment to a long-term vision for a communication infrastructure that connects as many assets as possible to improve city services. And that commitment is yielding...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
The announcement this week that Kansas City is expanding its Smart City program didn't come as much of a surprise. The program, which kicked off two years ago in conjunction with its KC Streetcar project, was initiated in relatively small but...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It sounds like a smart cities project: set up areas to serve as living labs so smart technologies and applications can be tested as solutions for local problems. There is no dominant city in the area, so San Mateo County and its partners are using a...
Article - 05/24/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It's frustrating when you want to use a city service only to find it's out of order. It may be out of the city's control, but it still reflects poorly on the service. But there are smart city technologies that can help cities improve the services...
Article - 04/19/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity
It takes smart, highly skilled people to use and manage the technologies and systems that make smart cities operate efficiently and reliably. But as the majority of CIOs will tell you, it can be a challenge to find them — in part because businesses...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Moscow city officials describe their My Street initiative as "the world's largest redevelopment project." Considering the scale and scope of the project outlined in the story below it might be hard to argue with them. While an urban makeover of this...
Article - 11/30/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
The Smart Cities Council has always said cities shouldn't go it alone when developing their smart city planning and implementation strategies: learn from the successes of those cities that have already made the commitments and taken the risks to...
Article - 10/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Smart cities are connected cities – and connected cities generate massive amounts of data. In some ways harnessing all that data, making sense of it and using it effectively is a headache. But more and more city leaders are realizing the value of...
Article - 03/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
Wondering how the Internet of Things can deliver valuable benefits in your neighborhoods and downtowns? Then don't miss the new white paper the Council produced with Microsoft; it's loaded with examples of IoT in action in cities around the world....
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Building energy management systems figure heavily in ensuring sustainable and livable smart cities by reducing energy costs, reducing pollution (commercial buildings account for a lot of pollution—about 40%) and making the building environment more...
Article - 08/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Installing sensors to monitor air quality, traffic, public safety and other aspects of city life isn't a new idea. But Chicago's Array of Things project is different in ways that may give you ideas for your own city. First, the AoT is more than just...
Article - 07/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
In case you haven't noticed, the smart cities sector is awash in partnering initiatives. Companies are working overtime to pre-integrate their solutions, so cities don't have to take on that onerous challenge. Case in point: The announcement below...
Article - 06/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Interoperability
Traffic planners have a lot of hope riding on self-driving vehicles. Human drivers have a tendency to compete with each other; computer-controlled, Internet-connected vehicles, however, can work together to cut traffic congestion and reduce...
Article - 03/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
When Con Edison of New York and Orange and Rockford electric utilities decided they needed to improve how they respond to customers and meet their needs, upgrade their energy network and do a better job of managing their electric grid they chose to...
Article - 03/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Council Lead Partner Itron's OpenWay Riva communications platform promises quite a lot: interoperability, distributed intelligence and more -- in one unified multi-service network -- for smart cities and electric and water utilities.As Simon Pontin...
Article - 02/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
Cities have enough problems to deal with. Urban populations are growing at accelerating rates and that growth is putting pressure on all manner of city services, whether it's traffic congestion management, public safety and crime, healthcare and...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
With the conclusion of the Paris Climate Summit, there's even more pressure on cities to find ways to cut energy use and emissions. Mississauga, Ontario, provides an inspiring example of how cities can contribute to those efforts. It's well on track...
Article - 12/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Connectivity
Think you need to greatly expand your city’s infrastructure? You may have nearly twice as much as you need. Surprised? Data and innovations that are already starting to appear are working to make that true.The pace of change in cities is...
Article - 09/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Connectivity
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Ooredoo ISP license supports growth of Maldivian economy Council Lead Partner Ooredoo continues to enhance its data market leadership across its global footprint, with its Ooredoo Maldives operation...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Security and privacy
Many organizations today are working toward or planning to conduct big data projects, but the great majority of those efforts are doomed to fail, according to an SAP blog.Why is that?In a webcast titled "Operationalizing IoT Data for Predictive...
Article - 07/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management, Instrumentation and control
New markets are unleashed when key platforms emerge, allowing different products from different companies to work together seamlessly. But every market has multiple platforms contending to be number one, so we typically go through years of...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
From improving healthcare and agricultural yields to meeting energy and water needs as urban populations soar, Intel is on a mission to bring bright minds together to find solutions. The latest examples: a big data analytics lab near Paris and an...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
You hear a lot of talk about Big Data. But what's really needed is Big Insights. You don't want to drown in the data tsunami. Rather you want your system to parse that data on its own and pull out the key alerts, issues, and opportunities for your...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When we turn on our computers, we take for granted that the power is there. Behind the scenes, however, that power is there because utilities knew you were going to need it -- perhaps even before you did.Getting the energy use forecasts right is a...
Article - 05/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
The adoption rate for the Internet of Things (IoT), the M2M technology made possible by the connectivity of secure networks and cloud infrastructure, is growing – and that growth will accelerate as more and more applications take advantage of its...
Article - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
It's common knowledge that urban populations in several countries are swelling quickly as more and more residents choose to take advantage of the economic and other benefits of city living -- and that the trend is not likely to slow anytime soon....
Article - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Research, publications and web sites
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Civic Resource Group joins Microsoft CityNext Associate SCC Partner Civic Resource Group International (CRG) is partnering with the Microsoft CityNext initiative, the technology giant’s effort to...
Article - 05/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
The future of self-driving commercial vehicles is unclear, but the lure of fewer accidents, reduced fuel costs – not to mention less human error – have generated excitement in the trucking industry as well as the transportation safety sector.The...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Many smart city benefits come from sensors that are connected to the Internet, providing managers with key information they can use to optimize city services. But now thanks to advances in communications and other technology, the sensors themselves...
Article - 05/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
InformationWeek this week announced its Elite 100, an annual ranking of the most innovative users of technology. While many of the winners are businesses — FedEx, for example, won for using text messages to see if someone is home before it tries to...
Article - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
"It’s not just a scenario of a bored teenager, deciding to show off to his or her girlfriend. In many cases, these are organized gangs of thieves," said Caleb Barlow, IBM’s VP for mobile management and security, while describing the new face of...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Security and privacy
Smart cities are an important subset of the Internet of Things. In the early IoT days, many of the big players focused on building applications of their own. Since then, we've all realized that it will take an army of solution providers to code and...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
A city in southwest England will soon be covered by a wireless umbrella designed to connect everything, allowing enterprising researchers to find new uses for the data that’s generated. The goal is to turn the city of Bristol into a hotbed of smart...
Article - 03/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Interoperability, SCC Spotlight Cities
A new effort named Espresso is designed to perk up the business of transmitting data over power lines. Council Lead Partner Enel is leading the effort, which enlists researchers, government agencies and other companies to find ways to turn...
Article - 03/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
People who manage utilities typically spend far more time in offices than at substations, which can make it hard to truly understand the situation in the field and the work that needs to be done. Council Associate Partner Space-Time Insight is...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Storms are challenging for utilities -- and certainly for their customers when outages occur. Resources are often stretched thin as crews try to troubleshoot and chase a multitude of problems scattered over their service area. But a newly updated...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Connectivity
Glance through the announcement below from Council Lead Partner Mercedes-Benz and you will see that electric vehicles (EVs) are finally going mainstream. The company has found a way to put its ultra-low-emission electric drive and batteries into a "...
Article - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
As city leaders, academics and leading smart cities practitioners from around the world gather for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week, Smart Cities Council members are sharing their expertise and thought leadership on a host...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partner IBM has launched a series of humanitarian efforts to help contain the spread of Ebola in Africa. They include:A citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
It seems like an odd assortment of issues, but Chicago officials say the Internet of Everything is helping them solve everything from crime and traffic congestion to staffing challenges and pest control.Chicago got a chance to show off this week at...
Article - 07/25/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Scroll down for short takes from Council members:Cisco partners on Asia's first IoT innovation hub: Networking giant Cisco announced a strategic engagement with Electronics City Industries Association to develop Asia’s first end-to-end Internet of...
Article - 07/04/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Analytics, Connectivity
By expanding its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) capabilities in North America with its cellular solution for water utilities, Itron says utilities are able to collect real-time consumption and flow analysis, pressure data and meter data from...
Article - 06/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
As the smart city marketplace ramps up, vendors are searching for ways to differentiate themselves. Increasingly, companies are competing through collaboration. That is, they are building worldwide partner networks to extend their expertise and...
Article - 02/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
In theory, getting people onto bicycles can solve many of a city's congestion and emissions problems. In practice, cities often spend far too much on "soft" campaigns that try to talk people into giving up their cars. Far too often cities pay lots...
Article - 07/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Transportation, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
We told you earlier about Microsoft's powerful foray into smart building management. It is impressive for its ability to work with myriad devices and myriad building management systems. That kind of integration is oh-so-difficult but oh-so-necessary...
Article - 06/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Not so long ago, landscape irrigation in homes and commercial properties was controlled by manual valves—with little regard for how much water was actually needed. In developing its WeatherTRAK solution, HydroPoint Data Systems chose to use an IoT...
Resources - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
When city leaders commit to creating a smart city, they need to determine how to orchestrate the convergence of diverse systems, from transportation to water and the electric grid and more, into a smart integrated infrastructure. Read the discussion...
Resources - 03/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Watch this video to learn about the Enevo ONe system that optimizes waste collection using wireless sensors that measure the fill-level of waste containers and forecasts when they will be full, then automatically optimizes the collection plans and...
Resources - 10/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management, Analytics, Connectivity
Frost & Sullivan analyst Brian Cotton discusses how analytic and collaboration tools can support better decisions and enhance and expand capabilities to enable public safety officials to limit or even prevent harm to people and property.
Resources - 07/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Connectivity
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
What makes communities smart? This video from Council Associate Partner Elster suggests smart and sustainable communities start with a smart grid, the heartbeat that powers the community's critical infrastructure.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The need for increased spending paired with decreasing base water use, source of supply issues, and tighter regulations is proof that the water industry is in significant disarray. In the white paper linked below, West Monroe Partners, a Council...
Resources - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
To provide a safer community in fast-growing Surat, the city police department started the ‘Safe City Project,’ an initiative striving to reduce the city’s crime rate using modern technology. Watch this Microsoft CityNext video to learn more about...
Resources - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Connectivity
Thousands of manufacturers, energy companies, and utilities rely on the PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft to collect, analyze and share real-time sensor data to build their mission-critical operations intelligence infrastructure. One...
Resources - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Roads simply cannot expand infinitely to keep pace with growth in traffic volumes. Traffic congestion and easing excess traffic on key roads can be seen as a flow problem. This video introduces SMIDER, a cloud-based road traffic automation solution.
Resources - 05/07/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Learn how Sacramento Municipal Utility District is using situational intelligence applications to increase grid reliability and integrate new energy technologies such as wind and solar power, electric vehicles, energy storage and demand response in...
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Gregory Curtin, founder and CEO of Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International, talks about fulfilling the promise of technology in this new mobile/cloud/data first world.
Resources - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
The Norfolk County Council (NCC) will utilize a cloud-based information hub to transform the delivery of integrated public services in Norfolk, with the goal of driving efficiencies through smart use of technology and multi-agency collaboration. By...
Resources - 03/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
The city of Las Vegas saves money and enables self-service among business users by leveraging Oracle BI Cloud Service. Raghav Venkat, senior systems analyst with the city of Las Vegas, describes how decision-making capabilities drastically improve...
Resources - 01/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
This brief video is the first installment in a new ad campaign from Council Lead Partner Cisco showcasing how the Internet of Everything is ushering in many firsts, but its legacy will be measured in the lasts it creates - the last blackout, the...
Resources - 01/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity